{"id":182674,"date":"2024-10-17T00:40:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndlea-seizes-115-226kg-of-illicit-drugs-arrests-149-suspects-in-ebonyi\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:40:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:40:38","slug":"nigeria-ndlea-seizes-115-226kg-of-illicit-drugs-arrests-149-suspects-in-ebonyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ndlea-seizes-115-226kg-of-illicit-drugs-arrests-149-suspects-in-ebonyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: NDLEA Seizes 115.226kg of Illicit Drugs, Arrests 149 Suspects in Ebonyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndlea_nigeria?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Drug Law Enforcement Agency<\/a><\/strong> (NDLEA) in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/743262-flood-kills-pregnant-women-one-other-in-ebonyi-official.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebonyi<\/a><\/strong> State said it has seized 115.226 kilogrammes of illicit substances and arrested 149 suspects in the third quarter of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The State Commander of NDLEA, Peter Ogar, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abakaliki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">According to him, the arrest and seizure were made in different locations in the state between July and September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mr Ogar said the agency in Ebonyi had, within the period, counselled 82 suspects, comprising 64&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410160576.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Ebonyi State said it has seized 115.226 kilogrammes of illicit substances and arrested 149 suspects in the third quarter of the year. The State Commander of NDLEA, Peter Ogar, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abakaliki. According to him, the arrest and seizure were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[49761,258,256,7845,6614,24927,9926,9859,257,4687,393,13889,254,4360],"class_list":["post-182674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-115-226kg","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrests","tag-drugs","tag-ebonyi","tag-illicit","tag-ndlea","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-seizes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}